Tweet remembrance
Posted on 11 November 2011, 20:49
The UK Methodist Church pulled the plug last year on a Twitter communion service planned by a Methodist minister, but today it backed a remembrance service (entitled ‘Tweet Remembrance’), with prayers, responses and a sermon delivered in a burst of tweets around 11am – plus a two-minute silence.
In fact, when @Poppy_Tweet, who was running the service, hit the Twitter ceiling of 1000 tweets per day and was unable to post further, @MethodistMedia, a Methodist Church account, took over for the final three minutes. The service was live-blogged on the UK Huffington Post.
The service, the first of its kind on Twitter, was put together in very short order by James Thomas from Cardiff. He said, ‘I started the project on Wednesday night when I realised that no one had done a Twitter-based Remembrance service before.’ The @Poppy_Tweet account was set up the next day (i.e. yesterday) and currently has 1622 followers, which isn’t a bad rate of growth for a couple of days online.
I like the way the service used responsive prayers, for example…
@PoppyTweet Will you seek to heal the wounds of war?
Response #wewill #weremember
... and I also like the creative way they linked to music on YouTube for the Last Post and the song Make Me a Channel of Your Peace, as well as to a livecam in Trafalgar Square for the silence.
The service will run again on Sunday from 10.15am (UK time). Here are @PoppyTweet’s thoughts after the service…
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